Recently, Professor Michael Hunter Schwartz from Washburn University School of Law, and a contributor to this blog, sent me the following email:

Dear Colleagues,
I am in search of the best law teachers in this country, and I could use your help.I have the extraordinary opportunity to conduct a law professor-focused, follow-up study to Ken Bain’s wonderful What the Best College Teachers Do (Harvard University Press, 2004).

Thus, I am writing to solicit your nominations. In particular, I am looking for teachers who consistently produce extraordinary learning, who change their students’ lives and whose instruction stays with students long after they graduate from law school. I hope what I produce inspires you as much as Professor Bain’s work has inspired me.

Over the next three years, I will be:

soliciting nominations;

gathering evidence of nominees’ excellence;

paring the list of nominees to the most extraordinary law teachers;

visiting law schools around the country, sitting in on classes, interviewing the nominees, and talking to focus groups of students and alumni;

and then publishing what I have found in a book: What the Best Law Teachers Do (Harvard University Press, forthcoming 2011).

I have set up a web nomination process (although I will also accept nominations by phone, by e-mail, by regular mail, or in person).

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